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Dark Alchemy - The Films of Jan Svankmajer (Hardcover) Loot Price: R2,764
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Dark Alchemy - The Films of Jan Svankmajer (Hardcover): Peter Hames

Dark Alchemy - The Films of Jan Svankmajer (Hardcover)

Peter Hames

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Czech animator Jan Svankmajer is one of the most distinctive and influential of contemporary filmmakers. As a leading member of the Prague Surrealist Group, his work is linked to a rich avant-garde tradition and an uncompromising moral stance that brought frequent tensions with the authorities in the normalization years following the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968. Svankmajer's formative influences have been the pre-war surrealists, the Prague of Rudolf II, experimental theatre, folk puppetry and, above all, the political traumas of the past 50 years. Like his contemporaries--including playwright president Vaclav Havel, and, in exile, novelist Milan Kundera and filmmaker Milos Forman--Svankmajer's dominant life experiences have been the realities of the Stalinist system, both the explicit state terror of the 1950s and the Brezhnevist neo-Stalinism of the 1970s and the 1980s.

After training in puppetry and working in the Prague theatre, he made his first film in 1964. He directed a number of important films in the 1960s, including the live-action and Kafkaesque "Byt" ("The Flat," 1968) and "Zahrada" ("The Garden," 1968) and consolidated his international reputation with "Moznosti dialogu" ("Dimensions of Dialogue") in 1982. Since then, he has continued his highly visual and poetic approach in two feature-length films, "Neco z Alenky" ("Alice," 1987) and "Lekce Faust" ("Faust," 1994). As a filmmaker, Svankmajer is constantly exploring and analyzing his concern with power, fear and anxiety, confrontation and destruction, magic, the irrational and the absurd, and displays a bleak outlook on the possibilities for dialogue. In challenging accepted narrative, the bourgeoisie of realism (nezval), and the thematic and formal conventions of the mainstream media, Svankmajer's work is startlingly dynamic, subversive, and confrontational.

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Imprint: Praeger Publishers Inc
Country of origin: United States
Release date: August 1995
First published: August 1995
Editors: Peter Hames
Dimensions: 235 x 159 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-29698-7
Categories: Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Films, cinema > General
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LSN: 0-313-29698-7
Barcode: 9780313296987

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